ReSpeaker Drive Unit

ReSpeaker Drive Unit is specially designed for ReSpeaker Core, as a separate speaker drive unit.

With this drive unit that you can build your own smart speaker with Amazon Alexa Voice Services or other voice services. What's more, it supports Airplay that means you can stream your music via smart phone, PC and Mac. And of course play local music is possible.

ReSpeaker Core contains powerful exntension ability, we hopefully it can help you to enable voice on your prototype/product easily.

To drive the Meow King drive unit, the firmware for ReSpeaker Core should be updated. To know the differences between the original stock firmware and this firmware, please refer to the change log here.

Now let's update the firmware. Firstly, download ramips-openwrt-v1.0.01-LinkIt7688-squashfs-sysupgrade.bin from OneDrive. Copy the firmware to SD card and then plug the SD card into the ReSpeaker Core. Follow the instruction here to get the serial console. Please note that, to get the USB serial working we need to restore the default firmware for the Arduino chip (ATMega32U4) if we have changed it. After we get the USB serial, type the following commands to update the firmware: